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THOSE who do not love schoolmasters tell us that the man who can do something supremely well contents himself with doing it, while the man who cannot do it very well must needs set about showing other people how it should be done. The masters in any craft are prone to magnify...
THOSE who do not love schoolmasters tell us that the man who can do something supremely well contents himself with doing it, while the man who cannot do it very well must needs...
2. CHAPTER I.I PROPOSE to deal in this chapter with the difficulties or dangers which beset the path of the Story-teller, because, until we have overcome these, we cannot hope for the finish...
3. CHAPTER IIIT would be a truism to suggest that dramatic instinct and dramatic power of expression are naturally the first essentials for success in the Art of Story-telling, and that, wit...
4. CHAPTER III.BY this term I do not mean anything against the gospel of simplicity which I am so constantly preaching, but, for want of a better term, I use the word “artifice” to express the...
5. CHAPTER IV.I AM confronted, in this portion of my work, with a great difficulty, because I cannot afford to be as catholic as I could wish (this rejection or selection of material being pr...
6. CHAPTER V.IN “The Choice of Books” Frederic Harrison has said: “The most useful help to reading is to know what we shall _not_ read, ... what we shall keep from that small cleared spot in...
7. CHAPTER VI.WE are now coming to the most important part of the question of Story-Telling, to which all the foregoing remarks have been gradually leading, and that is the Effects of these s...
8. CHAPTER VII.THE following questions have been put to me so often by teachers, in my own country and the States, that I have thought it might be useful to give in my book some of the attempt...
9. CHAPTER VIII.THE following three stories have for so long formed a part of my repertory that I have been requested to include them in my book, and, in order to associate myself more complete...